Diabetic patients often have defecation disorders due to control of autonomic neuropathy of the gastrointestinal tract, with constipation being the most common, and some manifesting as diarrhea, or alternating diarrhea and constipation, making patients suffer. For example, many patients are frequently constipated, with stools once every few days, with dry, hard, caked stools, taking laxatives, and then having more diarrhea, and then drier stools, always without good times. Some of them have early morning diarrhea, which is called “five-shift diarrhea” in Chinese medicine. The usual treatment includes: (1) control diabetes, reduce or delay the occurrence and development of autonomic neuropathy; (2) eat more food rich in dietary fiber to facilitate laxation; (3) develop good bowel habits. Some people believe that early in the morning, a glass of warm water, regardless of whether there is no intention to stool, ten minutes after the toilet, so as to develop good bowel habits, to keep the stool is very effective, patients may wish to try; (4) B vitamins. It is said to be effective in keeping the stool normal; (5) constipated people can take laxative measures, including the use of laxatives, such as Xinqingning, laxative, Ma Ren Run Intestinal Pills, Ma Ren Zhibin Pills, etc., once in the evening. Be careful not to wait until the stool has been very dry before using, by then a small amount of laxatives are not effective, more laxatives have will cause diarrhea. It is best not to use laxatives such as magnesium sulfate, etc. Phenolphthalein and fruit-directed tablets can also cause diarrhea in diabetic patients, and it is best not to use them either, so as not to make the stools dryer after diarrhea. Constipation at the same time there are abdominal distension, after eating the rice blocked in the upper abdomen “does not go down” and other symptoms, may be due to slow peristalsis caused by the stomach and intestines, the use of some morpholine, gastric renformation (methotrexate) and other drugs, open cologne on the body does not affect, can also be used; (6) diarrhea. (6) diarrhea. Some astringents are available, such as colistin, scopolamine (i.e. 654-2), bismuth (e.g. bismuth subcarbonate), emmenagogue, and flavopiridol, etc. (7) Chinese herbal medicine is very insightful in treating stool disorders, divided into yin and yang, actual deficiency, qi and blood, and internal organs, and treated differently from person to person.